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noun
A word or phrase (construction or idiom) typical of or influenced by a Semitic language such as Arabic, Aramaic or Hebrew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: Akkadianism, Arabism, Aramaism, Hebraism, Phoenicianism, Ugaritism
noun
Semitic character; Semiticness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, uncountable
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noun
Judaism; Jewishness (especially when seen as the thing to which anti-Semitism is opposed).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, strict-sense, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree English Semite Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Semitism From Semite + -ism.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
